Occasionally, late at night, I take a bloke up to Church Point on the Pittwater. From there he boards a tinny and motors across to his home on Scotland Island, lucky bastard. When much younger I took a girl home to this island (above). Little did I know that her tinny was a row boat and guess who did the rowing, against an incoming tide? In those days there were no solar-powered 'tinnys'...
On Wednesday afternoon I went for a drive to the Pittwater, just to see the joint in daylight for a change. As these images show the area is a beautiful part of Sydney and arguably equal to the main Harbour. Last week the Daily Telegraph published hundreds of readers photos of Sydney (a nice little earner), though strangely not many of the Pittwater. The shot below is nearby McCarrs Creek.
Ah, one of my favourite places in Sydney, probabaly made so mysterious by the surrounding bush. Church Point, Coal and Candle Creek, Bobbin Head, Akuna Bay, all sometime haunts of my yooof, when I knew the rich kids of sailing boat owners. This charming and unexpected network of waterways all feeding into Pittwater, where I also have fond memories of sailing in a howling southerly, at speed on a small laser. My first experience of capsizing again and again.
'Pittwater's' an interesting name, when you think about it, something to do with the 'coal' in Coal and Candle?
(BTW, you can safely drop the 'the' when referring to it, although calling it 'the' Pittwater has been cause for me to consider why it is called such).
Posted by: Caroline | May 02, 2008 at 08:09 AM
Amazing for sure. I also envied anyone who lived around or close to those shores.
On our 2001 visit back home we were fortunate enough to have friends take us out overnight, spent a good part of one day on Pittwater, my first time getting a look at it from that point of view.
I think Captain Cook mentioned Pittwater as being one of the great bodies of water he had come across, not exact but words to that effect.
Posted by: Brian | May 02, 2008 at 06:15 PM
Here I am labouring away, putting up with dilly fashion people and agro cabbie's who can't score a fare, and you are bludging away in my favourite part of Sydney. GET BACK TO WORK, WILL YOU !!!
Posted by: Rainer.the cabbie | May 03, 2008 at 05:16 AM
adrian drive a manly cab and you can see this part of sydney every day.although silver service has stolen a lot of work in that part of town,big deal you get a taxi with a driver in a tie.
Posted by: manly cabbie | May 04, 2008 at 05:02 AM
Caroline, don't know why I use the, 'the', as I've never really thought about it. But I'm happy to stand corrected.
Rainer, the weather was too nice not to take the opportunity.
Posted by: adrian | May 06, 2008 at 04:25 AM